H100 IndexWhat it costs to rent one H100 GPU for an hour on demand — the market’s anchor price.
- Value
- $4.29 / H100-hr
- Last Price Change
- May 27, 2026
Morning Brief
Morning Brief: Saturday, July 4, 2026
Start-of-day AI compute market report.
Published each morning with the prior day’s source-backed signals across GPU pricing, cloud capacity, power constraints, data centers, and AI infrastructure. Track the prior day’s source-backed news and changes shaping GPU supply, cloud availability, power constraints, data centers, and compute market pressure.
Morning Brief
Morning Tape
- Report date
- Saturday, July 4, 2026
- Signal window
- Friday, July 3, 2026
- National Grid Ventures invests $1.75bn in Joulent for construction of gas plant powering 2GW Microsoft data center in Texas
- Nebius signs 18MW lease with Merlin Properties at Spain data center - report
- Data center operater extends lease of Vanda 3 data center in Stockholm, Sweden
Today's Compute College lesson
How to Estimate Monthly AI Compute Burn
Monthly AI compute burn measures recurring spending on the capacity used to train, fine-tune, experiment, and serve models.
Why it matters today: Today's lesson connects the Model Costs track to the compute market readers are watching.
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Term of the Day: Interconnection queue
An interconnection queue is the waiting line for projects that want to connect to the electric grid. Data centers, power plants, and transmission projects may all face queue delays. For AI infrastructure, a long queue can slow down new compute capacity even if land and chips are ready.
Market signals
Compute market signals
Spot Compute PriceThe cheaper, interruptible GPU price — a read on whether spare capacity is available.
- Value
- $2.46 / H100e-hourH100e-hour means an H100-equivalent GPU hour, a normalized unit used to compare different GPUs and providers.
- Last Price Change
- May 27, 2026
Model Serving CostRoughly what it costs to run a model and generate its output at scale, per million tokens.
- Value
- $2.78 / 1M tokens
- Last Price Change
- Jun 22, 2026
GPU AvailabilityHow easy or hard it is to actually get GPU capacity right now, scored 0–100.
- Value
- 78 / 100 score
- Last change
- May 27, 2026
Signals
Top market signals
These are the highest-impact source-backed items from the signal window used for this morning’s brief.
Jul 3, 2026
National Grid Ventures invests $1.75bn in Joulent for construction of gas plant powering 2GW Microsoft data center in Texas
Watch item for AI compute supply, demand, capacity, infrastructure, or market structure.
Jul 3, 2026
Nebius signs 18MW lease with Merlin Properties at Spain data center - report
Watch item for AI compute supply, demand, capacity, infrastructure, or market structure.
Jul 3, 2026
Data center operater extends lease of Vanda 3 data center in Stockholm, Sweden
Watch item for AI compute supply, demand, capacity, infrastructure, or market structure.
Jul 3, 2026
New Jersey lawmakers pass bill to establish large load data center tariff
Watch item for AI compute supply, demand, capacity, infrastructure, or market structure.
Jul 3, 2026
300MW data center campus proposed in Kent, UK
Watch item for AI compute supply, demand, capacity, infrastructure, or market structure.
Power & Data Center Watch
- National Grid Ventures invests $1.75bn in Joulent for construction of gas plant powering 2GW Microsoft data center in Texas (Data Center Dynamics).
- New Jersey lawmakers pass bill to establish large load data center tariff (Data Center Dynamics).
- 300MW data center campus proposed in Kent, UK (Data Center Dynamics).
Watch next
Signals for the next issue
- Applied Digital Reaches Significant Milestone, Surpassing 1 GW of Contracted Capacity with U.S. Based High Investment-Grade Hyperscaler Lease at Fourth Campus, Polaris Forge 3 (Applied Digital Press Releases).
- MLPerf Training v6.0: Lambda delivers fastest LLM training on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 and fastest MoE training on NVIDIA HGX B200 (Lambda Blog).
- Nebius expands in UK with more NVIDIA-powered infrastructure, more customers, and more cloud capabilities for agentic and enterprise AI June 8, 2026 (Nebius Newsroom).
- Why the true cost of new gas plants is much higher than the sticker price (Utility Dive).
- NVIDIA Unlocks AI Compute at Scale, Inviting Partners to Power the AI Infrastructure Buildout (NVIDIA Blog).
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